普西克瓦尔人
普西克瓦尔人(Pucikwar),是安达曼群岛土著大安达曼人10个部落其中之一,由英国人在1860年代辨析出来。此部落生存到1931年。
由于大安达曼人的人数逐步下降,在随后几十年中,大安达曼人各个部落要么完全消失或通过通婚合并。1901年的人口普查中普西克瓦尔减少到50人,到1994年,剩余的38个大安达曼只有三个人可以追踪他们的祖先和文化回到原来的部落。
参考
编辑- George van Driem (2001), Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region : Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language, BRILL, ISBN 90-04-12062-9, "... The Aka-Kol tribe of Middle Andaman went extinct by 1921. The Oko-Juwoi of Middle Andaman and the Aka-Bea of South Andaman and Rutland Island were extinct by 1931. The Akar-Bale of Ritchie's Archipelago, the Aka-Kede of Middle Andaman and the A-Pucikwar of South Andaman Island soon followed. By 1951, the census counted a total of only 23 Greater Andamanese and 10 Sentinelese. That means that just ten men, twelve women and one child remained of the Aka-Kora, Aka-Cari and Aka-Jeru tribes of Greater Andaman and only ten natives of North Sentinel Island ..."